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		<title>New WordPress app for Android</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally installed the new WordPress app tonight. I like it so far. 
Still love my Droid and still very busy at work. I worked with six classes this week. My favorite class was International Trade. They had to find a wide range of statistics.
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		<link>http://www.whitis.us/blog/2010/02/05/new-wordpress-app-for-android/</link>
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		<title>Discovery Systems: Solutions a User Could Love?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a shameless plug for my committee&#39;s discussion forum at Midwinter. If you are not going to Boston or not interested in &#34;discovery services&#34; then go ahead and mark this post as read.
The RUSA/MARS Local Systems &#38; Services Committee invites you to join our discussion forum &#39;Discovery Systems: Solutions a User Could Love?&#39; at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitis.us/blog/2010/01/04/discovery-systems-solutions-a-user-could-love/</link>
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		<title>A Droid in every librarian&#8217;s hand&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, that may be overkill. I&#8217;m posting from my Droid. I&#8217;ve had it for a week. I&#8217;m still getting use to it. This is my first smartphone. I know, I&#8217;m 2000 and late.  Stay tuned&#8230;
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		<link>http://www.whitis.us/blog/2009/11/17/a-droid-in-every-librarians-hand/</link>
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		<title>Week in the life of a small academic library director</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#39;ve enjoyed reading the various Library Day in the Life  posts this week. I thought I would add my two cents, but in different format. Instead of a single day, here is an overview of my entire week. I will probably attempt the actual day in the life post once the semester gets into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitis.us/blog/2009/07/31/week-in-the-life-of-a-small-academic-library-director/</link>
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		<title>My ALA Annual 2009 schedule</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Taking a year off from blogging has created an interesting situation. This post outlining my plans for Annual 2009 in Chicago is only one post away from the one I wrote last June listing what I intended to do at Annual 2008 in Anaheim. This should create a double take for future readers browsing my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitis.us/blog/2009/07/07/my-ala-annual-2009-schedule/</link>
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		<title>My year long blogcation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the record, I am not dead. I have been on a blogcation&#8230;or maybe that is a blog-sabbatical&#8230;or maybe life just got busy and my use of alternate communication channels increased. 
I&#8217;ve read a couple of posts over the last few days from other librarians feeling guilty about not tending to their blog as they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitis.us/blog/2009/07/06/my-year-long-blogcation/</link>
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		<title>My schedule for ALA Annual 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anaheim is fast approaching. Here is what I am planning to do (at the moment). Let me know if you are going to be in SoCal and want to get together.
Thursday, June 26

Arrive at John Wayne Airport at Noon
Dinner with LA friend 

Friday, June 27 

OCLC Symposium: The Mashed-up Library, 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Meet the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitis.us/blog/2008/06/16/my-schedule-for-ala-annual-2008/</link>
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		<title>LOEX: When session content doesn&#8217;t meet expecations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy Friday the Thirteenth! I thought I would address your worst conference nightmare&#8230;wasting a session. It doesn&#39;t matter if it&#39;s ALA or ALAO (that&#39;s the Ohio ACRL chapter), but I usually end up sitting through one disappointing presentation. In this case, the content delivered didn&#39;t live up to expectations created by the session title and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitis.us/blog/2008/06/13/loex-when-session-content-doesnt-meet-description-expecations/</link>
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		<title>LOEX: Why Does Google Sometimes Ask for Money?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Leveraging the Economics of Information and Scholarly Communication Process to Enrich Instruction&#34; was the rest of the title of this session presented by Kim Duckett and Scott Warren from NC State University. Their PowerPoint presentation  (1.9MB) is available and you should read through the slides because I can&#39;t do them justice in this post.
Kim [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitis.us/blog/2008/06/12/loex-why-does-google-sometimes-ask-for-money/</link>
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		<title>LOEX: Using Benchmarks to Measure Library Instruction Progress and Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Candice Benjes-Small and Eric Ackermann from Radford University spoke about how they redesigned their assessment process for instruction. They had reached a point where merely counting number of sessions was deemed no longer useful in measuring success.
All librarians had been using a standard student evaluation form that had a four point Likert scale and a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitis.us/blog/2008/06/11/loex-using-benchmarks-to-measure-library-instruction-progress-and-success/</link>
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		<title>LOEX: Revamping a freshman seminar information literacy program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amanda Izenstark and Mary MacDonald from the University of Rhode Island discussed how they revamped the library component of their university&#39;s First Year Seminar program. They have been doing FYS since 1995. FYS student mentors were not enthusiastic when bringing groups to the library. Content was stale. Librarians felt in a rut. They experienced a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitis.us/blog/2008/06/10/loex-revamping-a-freshman-seminar-information-literacy-program/</link>
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		<title>LOEX: Constructing a Three Credit Hour Information Literacy Course</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anne Pemberton and Rachel Radom from University of North Carolina Wilmington shared their experience in creating and teaching a three credit hour course. The development of this course came out of a request from the computer science department. The Library had (and still) teaches two different one credit hour courses.&#160;
Anne described the initial discussion by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitis.us/blog/2008/06/09/loex-constructing-a-three-credit-hour-information-literacy-course/</link>
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		<title>LOEX Plenary: Creative Collaboration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Laurel Ofstein from DePaul University&#39;s Center for Creativity and Innovation  was the plenary speaker for LOEX 2008 in Oak Brook, IL. She described the nine dimensions of a creative environment:

Idea support &#8211; are new ideas encouraged or judged?
Trust and openness &#8211; are staff free to share ideas?
Discussion &#8211; are staff comfortable enough to discuss [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitis.us/blog/2008/06/09/loex-plenary-creative-collaboration/</link>
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		<title>Going to be in Anaheim for Annual?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You are invited to the Reference Services Section  open house  on Saturday, June 28 at 8 a.m. in the Palm Ballroom of the Sheraton Park Hotel (1855 S. Harbor Blvd).&#160; Learn more about our section&#39;s committees and discussion groups. Refreshments are being provided courtesy of Emerald Publishing Group.&#160;
Make sure to attend the 14th [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitis.us/blog/2008/05/31/going-to-be-in-anaheim-for-annual/</link>
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		<title>Why Twitter with protection?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been slow to warm up to Twitter. I created an account  last June before ALA. I thought I might use it while in DC, but ended up not messing around with it. I think my slow adoption of Twitter is linked to how I use my cell phone.&#160; I don&#39;t use my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitis.us/blog/2008/03/11/why-twitter-with-protection/</link>
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		<title>Move minds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy marchFIRST! How are you moving minds? 
 
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		<link>http://www.whitis.us/blog/2008/03/01/move-minds/</link>
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		<title>Looking for a library job?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you like working with graduate and continuing education students? Do you want to work at an OhioLINK member library?&#160; Do you like to teach information literacy skills? Do you want to live in southeast Ohio? If you answered yes to two or more of these questions, then read the Outreach Librarian  position description [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitis.us/blog/2008/02/06/looking-for-a-library-job/</link>
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		<title>Information behavior of the researcher of the future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every librarian and faculty member should read the CIBER briefing paper Information behaviour of the researcher of the future (2 MB PDF). CIBER conducted this research for the British Library  and JISC . The report focuses on information seeking behavior of students born after 1993 (the Google Generation). The paper also ties in research [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitis.us/blog/2008/01/21/information-behavior-of-the-researcher-of-the-future/</link>
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		<title>Teaching Disabled Students: Emphasis On Their Abilities, Not Their Disabilities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was one of the two &#34;current issues&#34; discussion groups sponsored by ACRL&#39;s Instruction Section (IS) at Midwinter. I was planning to go to both, but impromptu Collage training (more on that in another post) changed my plans. The topic for this discussion is very relevant to me as an instructor. IS has an overview [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitis.us/blog/2008/01/20/teaching-disabled-students-emphasis-on-their-abilities-not-their-disabilities/</link>
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		<title>Google takes on data curation?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Data curation has been a topic cropping up at conferences I have been to this past year. I&#39;ve heard it mentioned in sessions at ACRL and ALA, mostly by librarians from the big ARLs.&#160;
&#34;Sources at Google have disclosed that the humble domain, http://research.google.com, will soon provide a home for terabytes of open-source scientific datasets. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitis.us/blog/2008/01/18/google-takes-on-data-curation/</link>
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